truly

adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now

truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they

don't really listen to us" [syn: {genuinely}, {really}]

2: by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"

[syn: {rightfully}]

3: with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely

for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old

teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn:

{sincerely}, {unfeignedly}] [ant: {insincerely}]

4: (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth,

moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire";

"really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful

book"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to

express disbelief) [syn: {in truth}, {really}, {forsooth}]